Château Le Crock: Tasting & Drinking
My first encounter with Château Le Crock was many years ago now, as a prelude to a tasting of wines from Château Léoville-Poyferré, focusing on the 1980s and 1990s, an era which saw quality at Château Léoville-Poyferré improve in leaps and bounds under the tenure of Didier Cuvelier and his team.
Initially I saw no great change in the quality of the wines here. In subsequent encounters I found decent wines, full of colour, appropriately textured, but with no real excitement or panache to lift them to the next level. Considering the location of the gravel-rich terroir, which sits extraordinarily close to both Château Lafite-Rothschild and Château Cos d’Estournel, and with less illustrious but still more desirable names such as Château Haut-Marbuzet and Château Meyney not far away, I could not help but feel that the wines should have been better than they were.
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